By Simon Ngena
OCTOBER is Breast Cancer Awareness Month throughout the world and is synonymous with the colour pink. It is also the month during which Zimbabwe pays tribute to one of its most ornamental trees — the jacaranda — which blooms into a riot of purple in October, come rain, sunshine or snow.A genus of 49 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, the jacaranda tree is one of the most common exotic trees in Zimbabwe's urban areas.The City of Harare is particularly well known for its ornamental jacarandas,...
By Shephard Majengeta
THE informal sector, often dismissed as peripheral and chaotic, is an indispensable pillar of Zimbabwe’s economy. It has emerged as a critical source of livelihood for millions of Zimbabweans.
Not only is it a survival strategy but a dynamic engine of economic...
